Fair treatment in court
Townsend v. Rockwell Automation
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Faith Townsend alleges that courts denied her due process in her case against Rockwell Automation by applying precedent unfairly, presenting defenses for the defendants without letting her respond, changing how they treated her claims and motions, and disregarding her complaint.
- Who it affects
- Townsend did not obtain Supreme Court review, and the Court did not resolve her due-process allegations.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
She asks whether those actions violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
Townsend's petition focused on how courts treated her claims, motions and arguments in her case against Rockwell Automation.
Question presented
1. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when a court purposely drives a complaint into the appeals phase to the Supreme court as a way to adjudicate the case. By applying laws differently from the cases it cites, adjudicated in its court and differently from the Supreme court? 2. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when a judge convert claims and motions into other claims and motions, such as a motion for leave into the motion and a claim of fraud on the Court FRCP 60(d)3 into fraud FRCP 60(b)3 when it ’ s reason for doing so is not supported by the facts? 3. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when the court aggressively defends the defendant but refuses to read or give any credence to the plaintiff ’ s complaint?
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